Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s how to treat bites from bugs and lower the risk you’ll become their next meal. (Photo illustration: Ivana Cruz for Yahoo ...

Use plants, citronella, and essential oil sprays to naturally repel mosquitoes without harming pollinators. Remove standing ...

A Silver Spring mosquito control business is looking to shift the pest management industry to a more eco-friendly practice. Their method? Release 600,000 sterilized mosquitoes in Maryland suburbs just ...

Wolbachia bacteria could offer an environmentally-friendly way of controlling mosquitoes and the many diseases they spread.

Mosquitoes are everywhere, and their populations are growing. In one Washington, DC, neighborhood, the Itty Bitty Mosquito Population Committee is trying to squash them all.

Bee Safe says it has released 600K Wolbachia 'ZAP' males across the DMV this summer to suppress tiger mosquitoes.

The surefire way to know whether it’s a sweat bee or a corn fly buzzing around is if it stings. The halictid bee stings, but the corn fly, also called a hover fly, does not. “They’re mimics of bees, ...

Efforts to keep yards and pools mosquito free could be putting the food supply at risk. Hot, damp weather means more mosquitoes spawning and experts say using chemicals to kill the pesky bugs can also ...

In an innovative way to decrease the mosquito population, when one of the male ZAP mosquitoes being released mates with a ...